we spoke to bonham elementary, a professor of the doha institute, the graduate studies, he says, is there any rates on unusual? and i think we have to just kind of zoom out a little bit and recognize that israel is because basically an ex expansionist state. this idea of greater israel is very, very deeply rooted belief among many israelis, including the political elite, is that all of this land is supposed to be for them. so there's been an ongoing attempt truly decades long attempt to try to expand slowly into the west bank. there are more than $200.00 illegals settlements and outposts. they're also more than 750000 illegal is really settlers. and so these kinds of incursions are not, are not uncommon. certainly this is an escalation, but israel has its sights on larger and larger sections of the west bank. and there have been rumblings that they may seek to formerly annex at least area see in the west bank this year. now i think it's easier to understand why israel was hoping that donald trump would would when the election and back in, in august. and i mentioned this in an earlier inte

a man i'm joined in the studio at bonham elementary is a professor the deadlines shoot for graduate studies. why don't good see you again? so if i came to try and get a fuller understanding of besides the, what's happening in the occupied westbank, lots of comments coming, particularly from israel. we've had some random bob ahead of israel shouldn't. but security service saying we're talking of switching attention to the west bank. we've had the israeli army, chief lieutenant general, has the navy talking about bringing jeanine to a different place. israel cops, the country's defense minister, talking of a slight shift in strategy, not just of eliminating terrace he said, but to stop them coming back. so many public getting into the occupied westbank believable if this is a because it's a headaches ation the is ready say no, this is about eliminating palestinian fighters between those assertions. what's happening or israel been saying for decades that they're just fighting terrorism, but that's just kind of a smoke screen. what israel wants to do and what it's been doing for decades literal